Descriptive Essay On Walmart

The date was Friday November 23, 2012. That day wasn’t like any other day, it was Black Friday. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving where crowds of people are drawn to special offers by retailers. Wal-Mart is the typical place for most people to go to to attain such items during Black Friday. I was one of those people. The item I was going for was a PlayStation3, a videogame console. The console itself was nothing too special other than it being half price of what it was 6 years ago which was $600 and having 12.5x more hard drive storage but not only was the price intriguing but also it being my first ever console made me want it more. I couldn’t wait for the day to arrive for when I can simply go to Wal-Mart to get the console and be

On my way to Wal-Mart I thought nothing about what I was about to go through but after seeing how full the parking lot was I knew things wouldn’t be as simple as I had initially thought. I arrived 15 minutes early but considering the amount of people that were already there I knew they had been there for much longer. The people were crowded around the things they wanted but not being able to grab them since the event wouldn’t start until 8pm. The quantity of the items being displayed and the people wanting them did not match so many would leave empty handed, I feared I would too as my uncle had left me saying to meet at the front of the store when I had finished getting whatever I was going to get. After a lot of searching and going through crowds I finally came across the game consoles. The consoles were stacked on the ground and there were people completely surrounding them with only like 5 feet of space between them and their target. I counted the consoles and there were only 10 of them, there was no way I could get one especially with at least 3x more people wanting the consoles than there were consoles. When I was about to head back in defeat I heard someone yell out my name, it was my friend

The time had come. Unprepared we both turned back around to the consoles and there were people jumping onto them and saw some people getting crushed by the people above them as they were the first to get a hands on them but were losing them as people were reaching and tugging under them so they could get one too even if it was already in the hands of someone else. Knowing we had failed at obtaining what we came for we watched hopelessly as people were starting to get up, some with consoles in their hands others empty handed but in a beat up looking state. As we walked away from the chaos we talked about how we potentially would’ve turned out if we had gone for the consoles at the same time as everyone else, the older people would for sure not have show any mercy to us. James went to go look for his parents so I did the same and went to the spot where I had planned to meet up with my uncle. After waiting a while I saw him come out with a big TV and 2 tablets so I knew that it at least went well for him while I got my hopes and dreams crushed. On the car ride home I thought about how it would be like playing video games which was what most of my friends played and they always talked about all the fun moments they would have in the games. I thought I would never get to have the experience of playing video games but thought that I would turn out fine since I hadn’t needed them for